When the students go to a musuem, I like for them to have a clear guide of what is expected of them. While I don't take them on any sort of guided tour--and honestly, I think that this age it's a better experience for them to have to navigate the museum space alone or with peers because that's how adults do museums!--I do like for them to have structure on what they need to do.
With this in mind, I created packets for them to use while walking through the museum spaces.
This is our packet for the Met:
I begin each week with a recap of our experiential component from the week before.
This is the powerpoint of Met slides that I used to talk about the museum as a space, as a collector of history, as a place to learn about the art process, and as a place, of course, to see art.
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